I found this part particularly amusing because we do go to non-spam forums, and we call them Eyes on Final Fantasy forums. We're just lenient, that's all.Originally Posted by Psychotic
Well in that case, I don't see why anyone bothers to complain about spam, because there's boards for non-spam discussion, so why not just go to them for that?
But yeah, spam is okay once in a while, although I think it often gets out of hand, and I think that some people seem to make a mental decision to spam more often than they make decent posts. My personal preference is to have a large thread once in a while that, upon reading over it, would still entertain people who weren't involved in making the thread. Those things are very hard to come across, though. I've been thoroughly entertained by spam threads I've not been involved with before, though, so it's possible.
Once you come down to it, though, EoFF isn't designed for spam threads and that's why we close them. Sometimes we think "Oh, what the hell, let them have their fun" but if someone complains that "Oh, we were just having fun, why close the thread!?!?! LET US HAVE OUR FUN!!!" then we can simply say "Because spam threads aren't allowed at EoFF." They can complain all they like about past spam threads being allowed, but that's just us being lenient for exactly the reason they stated - to let them have their fun. We just moderate this kind of stuff. "Everything in moderation, including moderation" - I think that's a great saying.
And that's why I don't have a problem with the odd spam thread when most other threads aren't being spammed up already. That's also the reason why I don't have any problem with closing Psy's threads (or banning him) or Ojoj's threads (or banning Psy) or whoever-else's-spam-threads (or IP banning Psy).
